This
is a mystery girl:"Victoria Foster" is now Matura J. Foster

Around 2005 or so, this photo below was posted here with the hope of identifying
her. It was thought she was Victoria Foster. In June 2011, Carm Foster
resolved the mystery - she is Matura J Foster. See the text below of the thrilling discovery and below that a second photo of this woman.

If
anyone is attached to this family please do not hesitate to contact Randy Saylor who will pass on the email to Carm Foster.

Is this Victoria Foster?

Her picture was taken in Picton so it
is assumed that she is related to the Foster's of the Quinte area. She
looks young enough to be unmarried and thus born a Foster. Is the clothing a clue to the date of the photograph?

Various
census checks have yielded no results so “Victoria” may be her
middle name. She
was found in an old Photo Album of a Wallace Family living in Manitoba.

The
following information is on the back of the picture

First Prize

Photographers Association of Canada

Held At

Toronto

W. F. Johnson Member of the Photographers Association
of Canada & America

All Photos made with new process

No change of Expression

The Exposure is but one second

Gallery

Main St., Picton, Ont.

Rooms all on Ground Floor

The Resolved Mystery of a GalWrongfully Given the Name of Victoria Foster

And the mind set of never giving up - by Carm Foster

In
2004 I was sent a copied picture of this very photogenic young girl from an
old Wallace Family album held by a wonderful lady in Brandon, Manitoba,
Canada.She hoped I would know who this
young lady was and might be able to supply some information about her.The name written on the picture was Victoria
Foster.

About
a year later after exhausting all efforts in trying to determine who she
was,I contacted Randy Saylor to see if
I could post the picture on his site.I
hoped some of the many who accessed his site might have seen the picture before
and would help resolve the mystery.He
was concerned from the aspect of wanting to keep his site committed to the area
of the Bay of Quinte.I agreed with
Randy but mentioned the picture was taken in Picton, Ont. and I thought the
Quinte connection was there.He agreed
and posted it with comments.

This
past weekend of June 10th. 2011 my wife and I made a 2nd. trip to a place
called Victor, NY. located just south of Rochester to meet with descendants of
my Great Grandfather and Grandmother Jonathan B. Foster and Catherine L.
Wallace who had lived in Prince Edward and Hastings Counties, Ont.

On
the morning of the second day while in Victor one of the descendants brought a
picture.He casually pulled it out from
among several and asked me if I had ever seen it before.Later he said my eyes turned to saucers, my
body was agitating and I know I had problems trying to get my jaw off the
floor.I was flabbergasted.There she was, my Mystery girl!I was so excited a jumble of thank you words
streamed from my mouth which I doubt made any sense to him at all.He had never seen the picture I had, nor had
I ever mentioned to him my quest to find the origin of my Mystery Girl.He couldn't understand my excited state.

I
explained to all how I came by the mystery girl picture many years ago.I went looking for it on my laptop to show
them.The excitement was still in me,
with frustration building I couldn't find it at that time.I had a wi-fi hookup at the hotel where we
were staying so I accessed Randy's site.There she was patiently waiting to be discovered.With distant cousins surrounding my laptop
like a scene out of the wild west, we all agreed it was the same person but
possibly the pictures were taken several years apart.

My
point and belief when you come to a brick wall.Don't stop looking, and never give up!

Someone out there has a snippet of
information which when tied to one's own information creates a break in that
wall opening up a new landscape to be explored.Keep prying, keep trying.It will
happen!

Who was this young lady?

Her
name was Matura J. Foster or better known as Turie or Tura Foster.She was born on the 4th. of March 1867
probably in Hallowell or Sophiasburgh Twps. in Prince Edward County.

Her parents were Jonathan B. Foster and
Catherine L. Wallace.Jonathan, born
1838, was the son of Samuel Foster and Eleanor Bowerman, sometimes known as
Helen.Catherine, born 1843 was the
daughter of William Wallace and Margaret Wilson.She was born in Hungerford Twp., Hastings
County, Ont.

Matura
married a Charles K. Kennett.This
probably occurred in NY. State about 1889.She had 3 children from that union.Henry J. Kennett b. 1890, died 1890 4 days after birth.Frances E. Kennett b. 1893, d. 1969 who
married a Frank A. Welker and William F. Kennett b. 1894, d. 1949 who married a
Hazel Unknown.

Charles
K. Kennett died 11 Aug. 1898 andMatura
re-married a Charles Clark.This
marriage occurred 20 Mar. 1901 at Macedon Center,Wayne Co., NY.There were probably no children from this
marriage.Matura died 25 Mar 1949.Matura, Charles Kennett, Charles Clark, some
of the children and descendants are buried in the Macedon Center Cemetery at
Macedon, Wayne Co., NY.

The
attached picture is a composite showing both the front and reverse in one
plane.It is of Matura J. Foster which
may have been taken in Palmyra NY., about the mid 1880's.
Source: Carm
Foster, email June 13, 2011